Race 3 Review

After a long weekend of keeping ill, I finally saw the Salman Khan Epic, Race 3…

Maybe it’s the fact that I didn’t spend any of my own money (got a free coupon) to see the film, or maybe it was a 2d screening… this film only gave me a partial headache and I had to walk out of the film only twice… which is SO refreshing!

Especially after Baaghi 2, seeing which had led me to have a semi mental breakdown and it had taken me an entire day to regain my coherence back.

Glad to Report, Race 3 only kills HALF of your brain cells… guess they left the remaining half for RACE 4 !

Now on to this review…

Unlike Ahmed Khan who takes too many stupid pills, Remo as a director is on Rohit Shetty Steroids… so we have amazing sequences like Anil Kapoor shooting at a person which sets him on FIRE. (can be see in the trailers too) Awesome…

Lets go for more… since this film has a LOT of characters, they sort of go via the corporate presentation route of giving a voice over and explaining who these people are… which is FINE overall, no issues… we cant have 30-40 minutes wasted on characters alone. Speaking of which, for a Salman Khan film… the starting 15 mins has very little Salman and more of Anil Kapoor. Which is TOTALLY fine in my books, Kapoor is infinitely more watchable and a much better actor than all the rest of the cast combined…

But when Salman Khan IS introduced… he has now transcended the Matrix and become NEO. Using a wing suit to fly for miles and miles through the city and into the desert/outskirts. Till he suddenly drops down like a STONE (hopefully the box office collections will drop down just as fast) getting Sallu Bhai into his FIRST action scene. In this scene, Daisy shah has time to get weapons to fight, but not enough to get a pair of jeans or shorts instead of a dress. But how else would we see the awesome dress slitting scene (shown in trailers as well) and her manly macho legs.

As of right now, I feel daisy Shah has more macho legs than bobby deol and salman combined.

Along with miss shah is the generic indian actor dude. A Fellow SO generic, I forgot his name already. (If I ever knew it…) So generic indian actor is Miss shah’s twin. His idea of female empowerment ? keep calling his twin sister bro… ALL the god damn time. Sometimes before, after and during a sentence. In-fact he says BRO so many times, now his name is BRO.

Bro, Miss shah, Sallu and Deol are all part of anil Kapoor’s mafiaso type family. btw in a later scene, Diasy's slit up dress is now whole... such is the power of her family and sanskar...

To be honest the story isn’t too god damn awful, its just plain bad, nothing headache inducing. Which is umm... ok I guess.

This all leads to a song, which I skipped for a well deserved bathroom break.

Now... as the movie picks up, we get into more of a typical RACE type formula, with 100s of meaningless twists, turns and double crosses. Which is ALL fine, I am not complaining. They have kept up the name of this so called franchise which the audience will expect to have an overcooked and way too complicated plot for no good reason. But that’s what these sort of films are like. Just like my previous para, the plot is also long and confusing. Enjoy...

Lastly Miss Sri Lanka gets added into the mix and forget what I said about daisy shah’s manly legs. Jackie got more masculine legs than sallu and sunny deol combined…

Cool…

The rest of the film is not bad. It certainly isn’t groan inducing like Baaghi 2. It’s stupid but not moronic, the action is silly, but it moves swiftly and nothing much hurts the brain, till Salman flies out of a truck in ANOTHER god damn wing suit and now he miles from Cambodia to the Saudi Arabia-ish location in a wing suit… geez.

Either the director has NO clue what these are or he has played way too much of Just Cause 3. Not to mention, when bikes fall into bamboo huts, they all explode… in a huge 200 feet fireball. What was inside that bamboo hut? The Pompeii volcano?

Now easily the MOST laughable scene is where Salman hand aims two rockets and they hit their targets. this scene has been shown 1000s of times on TV. this one scene made me cringe a LOT. but Surprisingly, maybe good sense prevailed, in the film itself, Salman uses a GPS to track the vehicles and satellite LOCK the missiles to the car and then shows his strength by launching em by hand, but they are guided missiles. of-course with such powerful missiles launching by hand any human will get blasted backwards, hence they are vehicle mounted, but you know... salman is neo now... so who even cares at this point!

This leads us to the end of film, which has the cast promise you an sequel… to melt the remaining half of your brains left over after this film…

Rating : 5.5/10. Its bad, but its not the worst film this year.

It’s a fine watch for Sallu fans, especially once Sallu decides that he has taken the TVF’s Parody video (TVF's The Making Of.. 'A 200 Crore Film') WAYYYY too seriously and proceeds to make the premise of that parody into a reality. when Deol's shirt comes off and so does his for NO reason. Wow... I was remembering the parody and laughing uncontrollably...

For that. I salute sallu bhai and his dedication to crafting nonsense and minting money.

Truly sir, seeing your talent in a film like RACE is like seeing a car run over our collective brains…

Oh wait… too soon?